It was a deliberate pivot in the early days towards cars, because at the time cars made more sense. We were not as populous or densely settled then.
I think an argument could be made that it was a lot cheaper to build a road network everywhere than a rail network everywhere. But the optimal way of doing it would have been a combination and remains the case.
I'm happy with Operation Fly Formula, the FDA steps with the Abbott plant, and invoking the Defense Production Act. But why did it take people actually getting in a panic for this to all occur? The situation had been clearly coming months ago, why wait until it is critical? Not really a criticism of anything in particular but rather of the US government as an institution. We even had almost 200 members of the House vote against some of these measures because they didn't really think it would do anything and was performative... Well what does it hurt try? If it helps out just 5 % of infants or ends this a week or two earlier than it would have anyway, then it was worth it. Politics with formula. Unreal.
I feel bad about the baby formula crisis but part of me wonders why it is a crisis. Formula has been around for a nanosecond of modern mankind's history yet we have survived 200,000 years; 6 million if you count our earliest ancestors.
I thought about this as well. My wife breastfed all of our children so formula was never an issue. I had no idea how much it was used until all of this as we never needed it.
I just don't know enough about it to say. It is disturbing to think how dependent we apparently were on a single plant in Michigan.
government limits competition by not allowing other companies to enter the market through regulatory powers. this leads to having a concentration and once something breaks the whole supply is in trouble. There’s a lot of this in our food supply too and I don’t think many know how thin the line is between civil society and chaos
I imagine a combination of wet nursing (good luck with that today) and ground up grains. I also imagine it is part of the reason our infant mortality is so low now, too. I don't want to go back to a world where we had to rely on things like wet nursing and coarse ground up meals. Not saying that is what you want to do.
And it's everywhere in our economy. In many industries there are only 2-3 companies, and in big industries where this isn't the case there is ongoing rapid consolidation taking us there. To me it's one of the most important issues facing our country and it hast to stop.
There's literally nothing to this WHO/monkey pox stuff. Nothing. But you have the fringe folks saying Canada is already locked down by the WHO and the WHO will soon "occupy" the US. One day later you have all this from US political figures. This is madness.
If you love a guy that uses his political office to single out and punish individuals and groups for wrong think, that's a problem you'll have to sort out on your own.
I don't like a lot of what he does, I just don't think we would be lucky if he killed himself. Guy has a family. You do you though.